A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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Martyrs
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 41 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
All were baptized by the priest Maximus, Aurea standing sponsor to all seventeen, and they were then confirmed by Bishop Quiriacus, and given the Holy Eucharist. When Gallus heard of what had taken place, he sent orders and had them martyred.
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All were baptized by the priest Maximus, Aurea standing sponsor to all seventeen, and they were then confirmed by Bishop Quiriacus, and given the Holy Eucharist. When Gallus heard of what had taken place, he sent orders and had them martyred.
Feast: September 5
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From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
